Tex. Ins. Code § 1204.054 · Subchapter B. ASSIGNMENT OF BENEFIT PAYMENTS
PAYMENT OF BENEFITS ACCORDING TO ASSIGNMENT.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
An insurer shall pay benefits directly to a physician or other health care provider, and the insurer is relieved of the obligation to pay, and of any liability for paying, those benefits to the covered person if:
(1) the covered person makes a written assignment of those benefits payable to the physician or other health care provider; and
(2) the assignment is obtained by or delivered to the insurer with the claim for benefits.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 3, eff. April 1, 2005.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.1204.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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